Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
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Robert Z. Leonard as The Father (as Robert Leonard)
Ella Hall as Ella - the Daughter
Harry Carter as Dr. Sevani
Allan Forrest as Ella's Sweetheart - a Lawyer (as Alan Forrest)
Mark Fenton as The Coroner
United States 02 June 1915
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1915:
04 July 1915
Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father.
29 March 1915
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness.
24 June 1915
Nicknamed "Wild Olive," Miriam Strange discovers that her mom was an Indian, she moves to a hovel close to an Allegheny stumble camp.
12 November 1915
Helen Moore (Grace Williams) runs off with the nephew of Senator Foote, but when their car breaks down, they go to a hotel.
26 February 1915
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside.
09 July 1915
An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife.
13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
04 September 1915
New England fisherman Dan McQuade finds a dying woman and her daughter shipwrecked after a storm and raises the daughter, whom he names Coral.
24 May 1915
A British army officer refuses to avenge the death of a general who was murdered years earlier. He is awarded three feathers by his officers.
14 August 1915
Retired businessman F.G. Lawrence favors Philip Preston for a son-in-law; Mrs. Lawrence prefers Reggie, the Dainty Dude.
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